He reminds us that when we align ourselves with God and place ourselves under his bidding, we no longer belong to ourselves. We cease to have a "private life"- all we endure, we endure for the purpose of God.
Why shouldn't we go through heartbreaks? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God's purpose and die away of self-pity, and all so-called Christian sympathy will aid us to our death bed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the peirced hand of His Son, and says-"Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine." If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Tough words to hear when it's your heart breaking, I know. But looking back, I know it's the only way I could have ever made it through. Know, my dear ones, that this is my prayer for you all.
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i so often have felt the so-called Christian sympathy as an aid to my death bed. Others, I feel, see that as my cynicism, or ungratefulness. But how can one be grateful for un-paid-for, un-felt, happy sentences? Thankfully God has never offered to me anything that cost Him nothing, and so feels real. It makes sense to me.
I, for Him, have come at a price. He, for me, has come at a price. He paid them both to make me free.
Thanks Allison. That was something I needed to read and ponder today.
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